CLAP (TOGETHER OR UP) Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

clap (together or up)

verb

as in to devise

to perform, make, or do without preparation we can clap together a repair on the tire that should last until we get home

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Davis’s Friday ruling means the government must now disclose who devised the fund’s structure, but the information will not necessarily be made available to the public.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Engineers devised a lower-thrust trajectory that saved BepiColombo's mission but delayed its Mercury arrival from December 2025 to November 2026.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of devise

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As is true of the best novels, the story emerges not as a scheme concocted by the author, but as an organic outcome of each character’s growth over the life of the book.

— Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Secrecy laws like Georgia’s shield the public from awareness of the growing costs of pharmacists concocting drugs and the doctors administering the injections.

— Max Blau, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of concoct

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And props are improvised so that pool noodles are used for jousting and an earbud case serves as an engagement ring.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
To some extent, OpenAI’s new product simply formalizes something that people had been doing on their own, either by pasting text from one window to another, or by improvising personal ChatGPT-linking software.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of improvise

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Lock, who is in his eighth NFL season, calmly faked a handoff on fourth-and-1, jutted to his left and located Smith-Njigba, who did the rest with his legs.

— Andrew Destin, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Demand Deterministic Data AI bots are getting scary good at faking views, especially on CTV.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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